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The Political Genocide of Unión Patriótica in Colombia

November 5, 2025 November 5, 2025 By au2267

Join us for a discussion with visual anthropologist and filmmaker Yezid Campos following the screening of “El Baile Rojo. Memoria de los Silenciados,” a 2003 documentary film about the political violence in Colombia. Monday November 17th 53 Washington Square South, KJCC Auditorium 6-8pm RSVP here This discussion and film screening

CSI’s Cultural Coordinator Luis Rincón Alba just published “Joe Arroyo’s “Musical Mechanism”
Solidarity and Redemption in an Afro-Caribbean Carnival Song”. An essay on how Joe Arroyo’s music, specifically his carnival compositions, generate modes of solidarity that transcend national and temporal boundaries. His “musical mechanism,” employing the clave rhythm and improvisational structures, facilitates a collective reinhabitation of the past, a redemptive challenging of colonial divisions between the living and the dead. Arroyo’s work, therefore, demonstrates the transformative power of music to forge solidarity across carnival participants.

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Professor Lina Britto along with friend and colleague Ricardo López-Pedreros celebrate the release of their two edited volumes: Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s bring together the work of more than 40 scholars from half a dozen disciplines working in universities in Colombia, the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. They explore how a country that is usually presented as a rarity in the Latin American context actually provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems in the Americas. They are published by Routledge in the series Studies in the History of the Americas in 2024.

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